Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Korea South and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Banda Bassotti,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Starr,
Idris Muhammad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
Radiohead,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Babytalk,
Todd Rundgren,
10cc,
T. Rex,
One Last Wish,
China Crisis,
Arthur Verocai,
Main Source,
Grey Daturas,
Guru Guru,
Interpol,
Excepter,
Cameo,
Junior Murvin,
Gong,
Skriet,
Essential Logic,
The New Christs,
Visage,
Dennis Brown,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tres Demented,
The J.B.'s,
Subhumans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crooked Eye,
Bill Wells,
JFA,
Mr. Review,
La Düsseldorf,
Schoolly D,
The Doors,
These Immortal Souls,
Danielle Patucci,
The Toasters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Residents,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharoah Sanders,
Accadde A,
The Pretty Things,
Public Enemy,
Alice Coltrane,
Dual Sessions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alison Limerick,
Index,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.